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Going to February School
Last night we had the pleasure of co-sponsoring the Frederick Douglass Mash-Up as part of ACT’s February School. (Check out the fascinating student-organized programs here.) We gathered in a circle…
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MIT Day of Action!
A year ago, a group of MIT students, faculty and staff joined together to create a day of learning focused on critical issues of our times. The day provided…
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Put It Into Practice
Last week, the Center for International Studies hosted a substantive program, Trump’s Victory: What Does It Mean for You?. Among the excellent speakers was Nadeem Mazen, MIT alum and a…
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Learning from the Central Park 5
At the close of 2015, Charles M. Blow, a New York Times columnist who covers social justice and politics, asked other writers and scholars who focus on these issues to name…
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The Myth of Race
This Thursday, we are honored to co-sponsor the visit of Professor Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and law and has done groundbreaking work in public…
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It Is So Ordered
It is so ordered. Thus, the final words of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion written last Thursday, June 26, when the United States Supreme Court held that all same-sex marriage…
